*Constantius I (Flavius Valerius Constantius Chlorus) "the
Pale" Emperor
born in 0242
died Eboracum (York, England) 25 July
0306
father:
*Eutropius of Dardania
mother:
*Claudia
Crispina
born about 0221
siblings:
unknown
spouse (1st):
*Helen
(Helena of the Cross) of Britain ("Britannica")
born in 0265
Bythnia, Britain
died 0336/37
children:
*Constantine
the Great (Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus) Emperor
born
17 February 0265 Naissus in Moesia
died in May 0336/37
buried in the church
of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople
biographical and/or anecdotal:
Governor
of Dalmatia, appointed Caesar to rule Gaul and Britain March 1, 293. He was the son
of *Eutropious, a Dardanian nobleman descended from the
*Gordiani, and his wife, *Claudia,
daughter of *Claudius II (Marcus Aurelius Flavius Claudius
Gothicus), a virtuous and worthy Roman Emperor (268-270), who was a soldier,
statesman, and a distinguished officer. Born in Illyria 214, he was trained in the
hard school of warfare on the Danube frontier, and died of the Plague in 270, aged
55, whereupon his brother Marcus Aurelius Claudius Quintillus became Emperor. Constantius
I became Emperor of Rome in May 305, and in right of his wife, King of England. He
was born in 242 and died at Eboracum (present day York, England) on July 25, 306.
On becoming "Caesar," he was required by Diocletian to put aside *Helena
and to take Maximian's stepdaughter, Theodora, as his wife. From the first union,
*Helena and *Constantius
I had an illegitimate son, *Constantine the
Great. He married (2) Theodora, daughter of Maximinus, Roman Emperor.
Gibbon
says *Claudia was the niece of *Claudius
II (Marcus Aurelius Flavius Claudius Gothicus).
Encyclopedia Brittanica
maintains Constantius I's descent from Claudius Gothicus was a fiction.
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notes or source:
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